Comments on: Death and surveillancehttps://www.samizdata.net/2011/06/death-and-surve/
A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspectiveFri, 09 Dec 2016 13:20:55 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7By: bloke in spainhttps://www.samizdata.net/2011/06/death-and-surve/#comment-220934
Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:30:54 +0000http://192.168.200.139/?p=14093#comment-220934Not sure, but I think this is one of the methods used to enforce the ‘Congestion Zone’. It reads licence plates.

Also one of the many reasons I left the UK

Had to go back there last week. Sheesh! £2.50 to park in at shopping centre for 20 minutes. The sign on the motorway “Don’t drive when tired. take a rest” & the £8 the service area charges if that rest lasts longer than 2 hours.
This isn’t capitalism & the market meeting needs. It’s pure rent seeking.

Fled to France, smartish.

You can keep the dump.

]]>By: Kim du Toithttps://www.samizdata.net/2011/06/death-and-surve/#comment-220933
Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:31:14 +0000http://192.168.200.139/?p=14093#comment-220933Perry, there’s a HUGE difference between the police recording their traffic stops — which actually has the effect of keeping the cops honest — and a government vehicle whose sole function is to record the activities of the population. One records an apparent transgression and the actions of a specific state official in addressing it, the other is universal surveillance.

The only places where such general surveillance gains any traction at all is in places like Chicago — not part of the U.S. — and similar hell-holes. We recently voted down traffic cameras in our neighborhoods, except where the police could prove that the intersection was a constant scene of accidents — but absent such proof, no cameras allowed, thank you.

We have a kind of commonsense attitude towards this. We understand why banks and such would want to use CCTV cameras — after all, it’s their own property they’re monitoring. But state-owned roaming vehicles recording everything, “just in case”? Nazzo fast, Guido.

]]>By: Jerryhttps://www.samizdata.net/2011/06/death-and-surve/#comment-220932
Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:30:43 +0000http://192.168.200.139/?p=14093#comment-220932‘do not all police cars in the USA now have cameras recording everything?’
In three words – no they don’t.

Also, what do they ‘enforce’ ??
Clean lenses ???
And exactly HOW to they back up that enforcement ?
Harsh language ??

]]>By: Alisahttps://www.samizdata.net/2011/06/death-and-surve/#comment-220931
Mon, 06 Jun 2011 17:25:06 +0000http://192.168.200.139/?p=14093#comment-220931Oh, but Perry, DC is not in the US either:-)
]]>By: Perry de Havillandhttps://www.samizdata.net/2011/06/death-and-surve/#comment-220930
Mon, 06 Jun 2011 16:55:18 +0000http://192.168.200.139/?p=14093#comment-220930Kim, do not all police cars in the USA now have cameras recording everything? Also I recall seeing mobile CCTV vehicles in Washington DC back when I worked near there and that was years ago… I find it hard to believe they have since disappeared 🙂
]]>By: Kim du Toithttps://www.samizdata.net/2011/06/death-and-surve/#comment-220929
Mon, 06 Jun 2011 14:33:59 +0000http://192.168.200.139/?p=14093#comment-220929

“Yes, just like in the USA.”

Photographic evidence of your statement needed, please, Perry. (Doesn’t count if from places not in the United States like NYC, Boston or Chicago.)

]]>By: the Rookhttps://www.samizdata.net/2011/06/death-and-surve/#comment-220928
Mon, 06 Jun 2011 02:45:17 +0000http://192.168.200.139/?p=14093#comment-220928The Prisoner is in the Village.
]]>By: MicroBalroghttps://www.samizdata.net/2011/06/death-and-surve/#comment-220927
Sun, 05 Jun 2011 09:07:35 +0000http://192.168.200.139/?p=14093#comment-220927In the far distance a helicopter skimmed down between the roofs, hovered for an instant like a bluebottle, and darted away again with a curving flight. It was the police patrol, snooping into people’s windows.
]]>By: Perry de Havillandhttps://www.samizdata.net/2011/06/death-and-surve/#comment-220926
Sun, 05 Jun 2011 01:24:31 +0000http://192.168.200.139/?p=14093#comment-220926

You people have government cars with surveillance equipment driving around the streets to monitor the population?

Yes, just like in the USA.

]]>By: UShttps://www.samizdata.net/2011/06/death-and-surve/#comment-220925
Sat, 04 Jun 2011 20:56:41 +0000http://192.168.200.139/?p=14093#comment-220925Being a foreigner and all that, I just need to figure out if I’ve gotten this right: You people have government cars with surveillance equipment driving around the streets to monitor the population?

If I got that one right, so many new questions pop up – don’t even know where to start. That’s just messed up. FUBAR.

]]>By: Single Acts of Tyrannyhttps://www.samizdata.net/2011/06/death-and-surve/#comment-220924
Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:49:00 +0000http://192.168.200.139/?p=14093#comment-220924Just follow them around for a bit, they find it very disconcerting
]]>By: Zhttps://www.samizdata.net/2011/06/death-and-surve/#comment-220923
Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:51:59 +0000http://192.168.200.139/?p=14093#comment-220923I remember the first time I saw one of those vehicles driving on the streets when I was living in London…at first I could not believe what I had seen was real, it all seemed too incredibly fascist
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